Full Text of HR1109 98th General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | 3 | | Representatives are saddened to learn of the death of
former | 4 | | United States Ambassador to Norway and Quaker Oats Chief | 5 | | Executive Officer Robert D. Stuart, Jr., who passed away on May | 6 | | 8, 2014 at the age of 98; and
| 7 | | WHEREAS, Robert Stuart, Jr. was born in 1916 in Hubbard | 8 | | Woods and grew up just north of there in Lake
Forest; he | 9 | | graduated from the Los Alamos Ranch School in New Mexico and | 10 | | then Princeton
University in 1937; and
| 11 | | WHEREAS, In 1940, while attending Yale Law School, Robert | 12 | | Stuart, Jr. began to become politically active by
joining a | 13 | | group of classmates that included future President Gerald Ford | 14 | | and future Supreme Court Justice Potter
Stewart, which became | 15 | | the founding of the America First Committee; the America First | 16 | | Committee disbanded shortly after the attacks on Pearl Harbor | 17 | | in 1941, and
he joined the Army as a field artillery officer, | 18 | | serving 2 years overseas; and
| 19 | | WHEREAS, Robert Stuart, Jr. was discharged in 1946
with the | 20 | | rank of Major and returned to law school at Yale; shortly after | 21 | | graduating, he joined Quaker Oats,
which was founded by his | 22 | | grandfather, and led at the time by his father, R. Douglas |
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| 1 | | Stuart, and uncle, John
Stuart; and | 2 | | WHEREAS, Robert Stuart, Jr. stayed at Quaker Oats for 38 | 3 | | years, the last 15 serving as Chief Executive Officer; in 1984, | 4 | | he stepped down from Quaker Oats, and was appointed by | 5 | | President Ronald
Reagan as the ambassador to Norway and served | 6 | | from 1984 to 1989, during the declining years of the Cold War; | 7 | | and | 8 | | WHEREAS, In the years following his time as U.S. | 9 | | ambassador, Robert Stuart, Jr. served on the defense Base
| 10 | | Closure and Realignment Committee under Presidents George H.W. | 11 | | Bush and Bill Clinton; he continued to stay active in local | 12 | | politics, including his involvement with the Lake
County | 13 | | Republican Federation, which he co-founded in 1962; he was an | 14 | | Illinois Republican Party committeeman from 1964 to 1972; and
| 15 | | WHEREAS, Robert Stuart Jr. is survived by his wife, | 16 | | Lillian; sister, Margaret; son, James M. (Dianne) Stuart; | 17 | | daughter, Marian S. Pillsbury; son, Alexander D. (Robin) | 18 | | Stuart; daughter-in-law,
Nancy M. Stuart; 8 grandchildren; 6 | 19 | | great-grandchildren; and numerous Norwegian stepchildren,
| 20 | | grandchildren, and great-grandchildren; therefore, be it
| 21 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 22 | | NINETY-EIGHTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that |
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| 1 | | we mourn, along with his family and friends, the passing of | 2 | | Robert D. Stuart, Jr.; and be it further | 3 | | RESOLVED, That we honor the memory of Robert D. Stuart, Jr. | 4 | | and remember his service as a U.S. ambassador,
philanthropy, | 5 | | business acumen, and political activism; and be it further
| 6 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 7 | | presented to the family of Robert Stuart as a
symbol of our | 8 | | sincere sympathy and gratitude for his service.
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